off topic help

al plant webmaster at hawaiidakine.com
Thu Oct 18 15:16:34 PDT 2001


Jeff Mings wrote:
> 
> In a situation like this, I use a mini-distro that fits on a single
> floppy called RIP to boot into linux and remove the Linux partitions,
> since DOS/Windoze's fdisk has trouble removing them.  Use cfdisk or
> fdisk from any linux you can boot to wipe the hard drive.
> Next, use Windoze fdisk to create the partitions you want.
> Next, format the partitions.
> Next, use fdisk's undocumented /mbr switch to drop it's own bootstrap
> loader over the master boot record, or you'll end up with an undead
> LILO.  To do this in dos, change to the boot drive (probably C:) and
> type [path]fdisk /mbr.  It will appear that nothing happened, but the
> MBR was written to.
> Next, install Windoze as usual.
> 
> -Jeff Mings
> 
> al plant wrote:
> 
> >I have to reinstall a clients win 98 on a pc since the hard
> >drive died. I have several Hard Drives here which have been
> >used for Linux but the Win Box won't recognize the drive
> >letter so they can be reformatted to win98 for this box.
> >
> >Is there something I have to do to reformat them to get win
> >98 to recognize the drive. We don't want buy a new drive for
> >this backup machine.
> >
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